As part of the PHI Montréal residency, musician and composer Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin presents Porosities (we will be sponges and loudspeakers).
This performative choir project, developed with a 3rd grade class, explores listening, improvisation, writing, and collective creation. Between a cappella singing, texts written by the children, and moments of improvisation, the performance becomes a sensitive space where their voices and stories resonate.
Gabrielle shares her creative process, the significance of the metaphors of the sponge and the loudspeaker, and the richness of the moments experienced with the children.
Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin is a sound artist living between the ancestral territories of Tiotià:ke and Nitaskinan. She uses voice, text, synthesizers, and field recordings as primary materials, oscillating between free improvisation and slow constructions. Through performance, she seeks to bring forth forms of tenderness, play, and transparency. She is half of Désert mauve (with Charline Dally), producing audiovisual works, and part of the ambient minimalist music duo Jardin Joue (with Florence Garneau). Holding a Master's in Sound Arts from the London College of Communication (2021), she has performed and/or exhibited her work at the Musée d’art de Joliette, the Ann Arbor Film Festival (US), MUTEK (CA, ES, AR), the Calais School of Art (FR), the Society for Arts and Technology, and the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival in Montreal.
The PHI Montréal residency program is presented by PHI in partnership with the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Past Event
Exhibition • Contemporary Art
A performative project by Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin presented as part of the PHI Montréal residency
407 Saint-Pierre Street
Past Event
Event • Contemporary Art
A choral piece with students from Saint-Barthélémy elementary school presented as part of the PHI Montréal residency
407 Saint-Pierre Street
Past Event
Exhibition • Contemporary Art
A performative project by Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin presented as part of the PHI Montréal residency
407 Saint-Pierre Street
Past Event
Event • Contemporary Art
A choral piece with students from Saint-Barthélémy elementary school presented as part of the PHI Montréal residency
407 Saint-Pierre Street
451 Saint-Jean Street
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